Around 2,200 people was able to watch a video of a gunman shooting a synagogue in Germany before it was taken down from Twitch.
Video streaming site Twitch said that only five people watched the video live but it remained online for 30 minutes allowing over 2,200 people to watch the gunman shooting the synagogue in Germany.
According to the Amazon-owned company, the video was not promoted on its "recommended" feed. The company also stated: "Our investigation suggests that people were coordinating and sharing the video via other online messaging services."
The gunman attack occurred at around 12:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday in the city of Halle in eastern Germany. In the video, the man made anti-Semitic comments to camera before driving to a synagogue and shooting at its door.
According to local media, the suspect, a 27-year-old German who acted alone, was unable to enter the premises so he just shot two nearby people dead.
Twitch assured that it had a "zero-tolerance policy against hateful conduct". In its statement, the company said: "Any act of violence is taken extremely seriously. We worked with urgency to remove this content and will permanently suspend any accounts found to be posting or re-posting content of this abhorrent act."
Twitch also mentioned that the account that live-streamed the video had been existing for only two months prior to the incident and that it has only attempted to live-stream once in the past.
According to the company, it has sent a hash of the video to several technology companies, including Microsoft and Facebook. The video hash, which basically serves as the fingerprint of a video, will help determine if the same video has been uploaded on their platforms.
In March, Facebook faced a similar incident after an attack on a New Zealand mosque in that led to the death of 51 people was live-streamed on the social media site.
